著者:Rene Caillie
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年11月05日
Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the information he had collected. This account was first published in 1830, and records observations of a ……続きを見る
Africa is a continent gripped by civil wars and widespread famine. The causes of many of the continent's problems are deep rooted and can be traced to Africa's colonial past, when European powers di……続きを見る
First Published in 1969. This is a translation from Hausa of Frank Edgar’s three volumes of his African folktale, Tatsunijoyi Na Hausa, his major work. The Hausa whose folklore Edgar recorded so ind……続きを見る
The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the internation……続きを見る
United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa provides an exploration of United Nations military intervention in Africa, from its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first ce……続きを見る
著者:Raffael Scheck
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial ……続きを見る
著者:Emmanuel Gerard
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2015年02月10日
Fifty years later, the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba’s assassination trouble many people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of int……続きを見る
How did rivers contribute to the economic and political development of modern Africa? How did African and European notions of nature's value and meaning differ? And how have these evaluations of Afr……続きを見る
It has been maintained that the secular nature of modern human rights makes them incompatible with the religious orientation of African and non-Western societies. However, in view of the resilience ……続きを見る
This book examines the fundamental evidence for many different aspects of change and evolution in ancient Egyptian technology. It includes discussion of the wider cognitive and social contexts, such……続きを見る
Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy……続きを見る
Conflict in the Horn of Africa examines how the Kenya-Somalia border problem has deep roots in pre-colonial and colonial times mirroring the phenomenon of shifting territorial and human frontiers an……続きを見る
Voici 45 années d’analyses juridiques d’évènements privés et publics en RD Congo qui ont été analysés en droit et en temps réel. Les circonstances politiques et socio-économiques, très diverses ont ……続きを見る
Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court r……続きを見る
著者:Osman Suliman
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2011年01月05日
Although it is often simplified as an "ethnic conflict" in popular media, the current crisis in Darfur can only be superficially defined across ethnic lines. Any long-term solution to the conflict m……続きを見る
著者:Ronald Callander
出版社: 30 Degrees South Publishers
発売日: 2014年10月19日
In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation……続きを見る
著者:Toc Walsh
出版社: 30 Degrees South Publishers
発売日: 2014年10月19日
Toc Walsh was conscripted into intake 138 Depot Rhodesia Regiment on 18 April 1974 and endured a year of what he deemed to be ‘military mayhem’. In July 1976, he was drafted again with the 10th Batt……続きを見る
Mine-protected and mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles are today standard in the US, most major western armed forces and many other armies as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanista……続きを見る
著者:Sean Hawkins
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2015年02月06日
This book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa. Drawing on work from a variety of subjects and disciplines – from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to……続きを見る
Extrait : "Ghadamès ! Quelle fascination ce nom a exercé sur tous ceux qui ont vécu dans le Sud de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie ! Moi-même, dans mes précédents voyages, j'avais ressenti quelque chose ……続きを見る
During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling u……続きを見る
Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth century European colonialism, but that is only a small part of the story. In this celebrated book, beautifully tra……続きを見る
This book (first published in 1874) contains extracts from last journals written by David Livingstone, together with an account of his last moments and sufferings. This fantastic volume is recommend……続きを見る
This vintage book contains Stewart Edward White's 1913 collection of stories, “African Camp Fires”. The stories of this collection revolve around several intertwined topics: sub-Saharan Africa of 10……続きを見る
The Barbary Corsairs were a group of pirates that operated out of the northern African ports of Salé, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli during the Sixteenth century. This book offers a fascinating insight……続きを見る
著者:Claud Williams
出版社: Society for Libyan Studies
発売日: 2013年11月19日
Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, firsthand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background……続きを見る
Extrait : "Le jour vint ; je ne saurais cacher que je l'appelais de tous mes vœux, car depuis longtemps déjà j'avais mordu à la vie d'explorateur et elle m'avait passionné. À deux reprises, au Sénég……続きを見る
In an incisive view of the relationship between Africa and the West, the author, who holds diplomas from the London School of Economics and the London School of Journalism, suggests that the aid mac……続きを見る
The book begins with historical references that describe how Ethiopia was viewed by ancient civilizations, then moves to an analysis of Ethiopia's relationship with European powers in the late 19th ……続きを見る